FISHING THE PACIFIC 



used 9-thread line. The fish showered the angler with so much 

 black ink that he was forced to wear a mask to protect his 

 eyes and his guides did likewise. 



In February, 1941, before going up to the magnificent new 

 grounds off Salango, Ecuador, and north, Lerner led his 

 second expedition to Peru and fished off Cabo Blanco for 

 another ten days. All the black marlin sighted refused to 

 strike but he did catch the first Pacific sailfish that was ever 

 boated off Peru. 



Lerner had used Hans Hinrichs' beautiful fishing cruiser 

 Alone, which Hinrichs had shipped down, and Captain 

 Osborn then left Mr. Lerner to fish Mr. Hinrichs. They 

 succeeded in boating a 705 -pound black marhn plus a pair 

 of nice mako sharks, and Hinrichs became the first man to 

 catch striped marlin on these bountiful Peruvian grounds. 



He lost another black marhn that was estimated at more 

 than over 1000 pounds. With the exception of his big black, 

 all these fish were taken by the drifting method of fishing 

 deep, with motors stopped, about five miles out of Cabo 

 Blanco, and it is by this method that so many tuna have been 

 caught. 



Cabo Blanco was not seriously fished again until after the 

 war. In 1948 Enrique Pardo, the great Peruvian sportsman 

 and her leading angler, son of one of her ex-presidents and edu- 

 cated at Cambridge, bought Thorne Donnelly's Mako II, a 2 8- 

 f oot twin-screw fishing cruiser from Miami, renamed her the 

 Sansky and shipped her to Cabo Blanco. 



He fished this boat with some success, catching striped 

 marlin and broadbill swordfish, and in 1950, when I was in 

 Lima, cabled me an invitation to join him in an excursion. I 



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